iPad User Guide
- Welcome
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- iPad models compatible with iPadOS 27
- iPad mini (6th generation)
- iPad mini (A17 Pro)
- iPad (9th generation)
- iPad (10th generation)
- iPad (A16)
- iPad Air (4th generation)
- iPad Air (5th generation)
- iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
- iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
- iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
- iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
- iPad Air 11-inch (M4)
- iPad Air 13-inch (M4)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (M5)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation)
- iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
- iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)
- Setup basics
- Make your iPad your own
- Streamline your workflow on iPad
- Do more with Apple Pencil
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- What’s new in iPadOS 27
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- Turn on and set up iPad
- Wake, unlock, and lock
- Connect to the internet
- Manage Wi-Fi settings
- Set up cellular service
- View or change cellular data settings
- Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
- Change the name of your iPad
- Change the date and time
- Change the language and region
- Change the default apps
- Change your default search engine on iPad
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- Find settings
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Get information about your iPad
- Adjust the volume and silence
- Turn the iPad flashlight on or off
- Drag and drop
- Rotate your iPad screen
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Perform quick actions
- Search with Spotlight
- View and respond to notifications
- Change notification settings
- Manage storage on iPad
- Travel with iPad
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- Get started with Calendar
- Create and edit events in Calendar
- Send invitations
- Reply to invitations
- Change how you view events
- Search for events
- Change Calendar settings
- Schedule or display events in a different time zone
- Keep track of events
- Use multiple calendars
- Use reminders in Calendar
- Use the Holidays calendar
- Share iCloud calendars
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- Get started with FaceTime
- Create a FaceTime link
- Take a Live Photo
- Use FaceTime audio call tools
- Use Live Captions and Live Translation
- Use other apps during a call
- Make a Group FaceTime call
- Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
- Share your screen in a FaceTime call
- Request or give remote control in a FaceTime call
- Collaborate on a document in a FaceTime call
- Use video conferencing features
- Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
- Change the FaceTime video settings
- Change the FaceTime audio settings
- Change your appearance
- Leave a call or switch to Messages
- Screen and filter calls
- Block a FaceTime call and report it as spam
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- Get started with the Apple Games app
- Set up your Game Center profile
- Find and download games
- Subscribe to Apple Arcade
- Connect with friends in the Apple Games app
- Play with friends in the Apple Games app
- Manage your game library
- Connect a game controller
- Change game-related settings
- Report a problem with a game
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- Get started with Home
- Intro to Home
- Set up accessories
- Control accessories
- Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
- View electricity usage and rates
- Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
- Set up HomePod
- Control your home remotely
- Create and use scenes
- Use automations
- Set up security cameras
- Use Face Recognition
- Configure a router
- Invite others to control accessories
- Add more homes
- Use Apple Intelligence with Home cameras and notifications
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- Get started with Mail
- Check your email
- Use categories
- Automatically clean up iCloud Mail
- Set email notifications
- Search for email
- Organize your email in mailboxes
- Use iCloud Mail rules to automatically apply actions to emails
- Change Mail settings
- Delete and recover emails
- Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
- Print emails
- Use keyboard shortcuts
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- Get started with Music
- Get music
- Customize Music
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- Play music
- Use the music player controls
- Play lossless audio
- Play Spatial Audio
- Listen to radio
- Play music together using SharePlay
- Play music together in the car
- Queue up your music
- Transition songs
- Shuffle or repeat songs
- Sing along with Apple Music
- Show song credits and lyrics
- Tell Apple Music what you enjoy
- Adjust the sound quality
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- Get started with News
- Get News notifications and newsletters
- Use News widgets
- See news stories chosen just for you
- Read and share stories
- Read local news
- Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
- Listen to Apple News Today on iPad
- Search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes
- Save stories
- Clear your reading history
- Customize the tab bar
- Subscribe to individual news channels
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- Get started with Notes
- Create and format notes
- Use Quick Notes
- Add drawings and handwriting
- Enter formulas and equations
- Add photos, video, and more
- Record and transcribe audio
- Scan text and documents
- Work with PDFs
- Add links
- Search notes
- Organize in folders
- Organize with tags
- Use Smart Folders
- Share and collaborate
- Export or print notes
- Lock notes
- Delete and recover notes
- Add or remove accounts
- Change the Notes view
- Change Notes settings
- Use keyboard shortcuts
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- Use passwords on iPad
- Find your password for a website or app
- Change the password for a website or app
- Remove a password
- Recover a deleted password
- Create a password for a website or app
- Show passwords in large text
- Use passkeys to sign in to websites and apps
- Sign in with Apple
- Share passwords
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- See websites excluded from AutoFill
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- View password history
- Find your Wi-Fi password
- Share passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your passwords available on all your devices
- Automatically fill in verification codes
- Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
- Use two-factor authentication
- Use security keys
- See your Mac FileVault recovery key
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- Make a call
- Record and transcribe a call
- Change your Phone settings
- View and delete the call history
- Answer or decline incoming calls
- While on a call
- See translations during phone calls
- Have a conference or three-way call
- Set up Voicemail
- Check voicemail
- Change voicemail greeting and settings
- Select ringtones
- Make calls using Wi-Fi
- Set up call forwarding
- Set up call waiting
- Screen and block calls
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- Browse your photo library
- Browse your photo collections
- View photos and videos
- View reference images
- See photo and video information
- Sort and filter the photo library
- Get started with Photos
- Apply star ratings
- Back up and sync your photos and videos with iCloud
- Delete or hide photos and videos
- Add keywords
- Search for photos and videos
- Get wallpaper suggestions
- Clean up, extend, and reframe photos
- Make stickers from your photos
- Save a video frame as a photo
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Hide people, memories, or holidays
- Merge duplicate photos
- Import and export photos and videos
- Print photos
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- Get started with Podcasts
- Find podcasts
- Play podcasts on iPad
- View podcast transcripts
- Follow your favorite podcasts
- Rate or review podcasts
- Use the Podcasts widget
- Select your favorite Podcasts categories and channels
- Organize your podcast library
- Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
- Subscribe to podcasts
- Connect app subscriptions to Podcasts on iPad
- Change download settings
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- Get started with Reminders
- Create reminders
- Make a grocery list
- Add details
- Complete items
- Delete and recover reminders
- Edit and organize a list
- Search your lists
- Organize multiple lists
- Tag items
- Use Smart Lists
- Share and collaborate
- Print a list
- Work with templates
- Add or remove accounts
- Change Reminders settings
- Use keyboard shortcuts
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- Get started with Safari
- Browse the web
- Search for websites
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Create multiple Safari profiles
- Listen to a webpage
- Mute audio in tabs
- Bookmark a website
- Open as Web App
- Bookmark a website as a favorite
- Save pages to a Reading List
- Find links shared with you
- Download a PDF
- Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
- Fill in forms
- Get extensions
- Clear your cache and cookies
- Enable cookies
- Shortcuts
- Tips
- TV
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- Power adapter and charge cable
- Use headphone audio-level features
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- Apple Pencil compatibility
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil (1st generation)
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil (USB-C)
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil Pro
- Enter text with Scribble
- Draw with Apple Pencil
- Take and mark up a screenshot with Apple Pencil
- Quickly write notes
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Connect Bluetooth accessories
- Play audio from your iPad on a Bluetooth accessory from your iPad
- Apple Watch with Fitness+
- Printers
- Polishing cloth
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPad
- Allow phone calls and text messages on your iPad
- Share your internet connection with Personal Hotspot
- Use your iPad as a webcam for Apple TV 4K
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans on Mac
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
- Transfer files between devices
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Use accessibility features during setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
- Share your Accessibility settings with another device
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- Overview of accessibility features for vision
- Read or listen to text in apps with Accessibility Reader
- Zoom in
- View a larger version of text you’re reading or typing
- Change display colors
- Make text easier to read
- Make onscreen elements easier to see
- Customize onscreen motion
- Use iPad more comfortably while riding in a vehicle
- Customize per-app visual settings
- Hear what’s on the screen or typed
- Hear audio descriptions
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Use VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPad when VoiceOver is on
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Keep the screen off
- Use VoiceOver with an external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type braille on the screen
- Use Braille Access with a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Hear what’s on your screen and around you
- Use VoiceOver in apps
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- Overview of accessibility features for mobility
- Use AssistiveTouch
- Use an adjustable onscreen trackpad on iPad
- Control iPad with the movement of your eyes
- Control iPad with the movement of your head
- Adjust how iPad responds to your touch
- Auto-answer calls
- Change Face ID and attention settings
- Use Voice Control
- Adjust the top or Home button
- Use Apple TV 4K Remote buttons
- Adjust pointer settings
- Adjust keyboard settings
- Control iPad with an external keyboard
- Adjust AirPods settings
- Adjust double tap and squeeze settings for Apple Pencil
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- Overview of accessibility features for hearing
- Use hearing devices
- Use Live Listen
- Use sound recognition
- Get notified when your name is called
- Set up and use RTT
- Flash the indicator light or screen for notifications
- Adjust audio settings
- Play background sounds
- Display subtitles and captions
- Show transcriptions for Intercom messages
- Get live captions of spoken audio
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- Control what you share
- Turn on Lock Screen features
- Block contacts
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Advanced Data Protection
- Use Lockdown Mode
- Install Background Security Improvements
- Receive warnings about sensitive content
- Use Contact Key Verification
- Use Impersonation Risk Detection
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Apple and the environment
- Class 1 Laser information
- Disposal and recycling information
- Unauthorized modification of iPadOS
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright and trademarks
Magnify or get information about things around you with Magnifier on iPad
In the Magnifier app, you can use your iPad like a magnifying glass to zoom in on text or objects around you. With Apple Intelligence,* you can also use Ask Magnifier to get information about your surroundings.
Note: Apple Intelligence on iPadOS 27 or later is available on an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPad mini (A17 Pro) and iPad models with M1 or later. Apple Intelligence is not available in all languages or regions. Usage limits may apply.*
Magnify nearby text or objects
Go to the Magnifier app
on your iPad.
Point the iPad camera at the text or object you want to magnify, then drag the slider to zoom in or out.
You can also use any of the following default controls:
Tap
to switch between your default controls and custom sets of controls you’ve defined for recurring tasks or situations (called activities). See Set your preferred controls for an activity.
Tap
to temporarily freeze the frame.
Tap
to add more controls, including Get live descriptions of your surroundings, or edit activities you’ve created.
Tip: Set up a shortcut to quickly open Magnifier from Control Center or by clicking an iPad button. See Quickly turn accessibility features on or off.
Ask questions and get information about your surroundings
With Apple Intelligence, you can get descriptions of your surroundings and ask questions about what your camera sees, like the total on a bill or the color of a shirt. You can set a default question that is answered automatically.
Go to the Magnifier app
Point the iPad camera at the text or object you want to see, tap
, then do one of the following:
Select a default question: Select “What is this?” or a default question you created in your Ask Magnifier settings.
Type or speak a question: Select Type or Speak, then ask a question about your surroundings.
Temporarily freeze the frame
You can temporarily capture what’s in the frame, without saving it to Photos.
Go to the Magnifier app
Tap
Take one or more photos: Press and hold
If you select Multi-Photo, you’ll see a group of photos in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Capture text and reframe it: Press and hold
After you tap Confirm, tap
to view the text with Accessibility Reader. See view your captured text in a format for easier reading or to listen to your captured text.
Customize and listen to text: If you’re magnifying text, tap
Share captured images: Tap
for more options, such as sharing the captured frame or saving it to your photos.
Stop viewing captured images: Tap
to unfreeze the frame and return to the live Magnifier lens.
To reset Magnifier, press and hold anytime and select Document, Multi-Photo, or Single-Photo.
View your captured text in a format for easier reading
If you magnify a frame that contains text, you can view it in a format adapted for easier reading. You can even adjust fonts, layouts, and background colors.
Go to the Magnifier app
Tap
Magnifier alerts you if no text is detected in the frame you captured.
Tap
, then tap Customize Reader.
Select a theme, then tap Edit.
Do any of the following:
Text Color: Choose a color or tap Custom Color.
Background Color: Choose a color or tap Custom Color.
Text Size: Drag the slider left or right to make the text smaller or larger.
Font: Choose a font.
High Legibility Characters: Turn on High Legibility Characters.
Note: This option is only available when using System Font.
Bold Text: Turn on Bold Text.
Line Spacing: Choose
,
, or
to customize the space between lines.
Word Spacing: Choose
,
, or
to customize the space between words.
Character Spacing: Choose
,
, or
to customize the space between characters.
Readable Content Width: Choose
,
, or
to customize the text width.
Hyperlinks: Turn Show Links on or off. When turned on, you can customize the color.
Playback: Turn Highlighting on or off. When turned on, you can customize the style or highlight color.
Rename: Enter a name for the settings you choose.
Reset to Default: Reset all themes to their default settings.
Tip: Rename a theme with your custom settings so you can easily find it and reuse it later.
You can also use Accessibility Reader to customize the text in apps. See Read or listen to text in apps with Accessibility Reader on iPad.
Listen to your captured text
Go to the Magnifier app
Tap
Magnifier alerts you if no text is detected in the frame you captured.
Do any of the following:
Listen to the text: Tap
.
Pause the text: Tap
.
Skip backward or forward: Tap
or
.
Increase or decrease the speed: Tap
, then select a speed.
Go to a specific time: Drag the slider left or right.
Note: You can hide or show audio controls: Tap
.
Get live descriptions of your surroundings
If you’re blind or have low vision, you can use Detection Mode in the Magnifier app on iPad to scan your surroundings and get live descriptions of the scenes detected in the camera view. Live descriptions are available as text or speech.
Important: Detection Mode should not be relied on in high-risk or emergency situations, in circumstances where you may be harmed or injured, or for navigation.
Go to the Magnifier app
Tap
to start Detection Mode.
If you don’t see
Touch and hold
On supported iPad models, detect doors, people, and furniture near you.
On all iPad models, detect text in the camera frame and have it read out loud or point your finger at text to have it spoken.
To temporarily pause detection, double-tap the screen with two fingers. Double-tap again with two fingers to resume detection. To stop Detection Mode, tap
If you use VoiceOver, you can turn on Live Recognition from any screen on iPad and get descriptions of your surroundings without going to the Magnifier app. See Get live descriptions of your surroundings with VoiceOver.